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Sunday, May 1, 2016

(The Hindu) Tobacco growers in Prakasam district are gearing up for agitation as the market slide has been continuing ever since cigarette manufacturers stopped production over the issue of larger pictorial warning from April 1.

While exporters shied away from the market on the pretext of lack of confirmed orders from overseas buyers, domestic manufacturers offered lower prices taking advantage of the inaction of the exporters, laments a group of growers in Ongole I auction platform. Continued